Rebecca Canter

Executive Director

2024 - Current

Senior Director - Venture Sciences

2022 - 2024

Senior Associate

2022 - 2022

Investment Associate

2019 - 2021

Analyst

2018 - 2018

Board Observer

2019 - 2022

Postdoctoral Scientist

2016 - 2018

Graduate Student

2009 - 2016

• Work examining circuit-level dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease models. • Lead lab tours for donors and funding agencies to discuss research and funding opportunities. • Train laboratory members and collaborators on basics of confocal microscopy and wide-field imaging. • Perform microscope maintenance and manage time-sharing as laboratory microscope manager. • Consult for lab members on tissue labeling protocols and sample preparation techniques. • Write and edit research and funding proposals for personal, student, and lab planning. • Mentor undergraduate and high school researchers in experimental design and technique development.

Graduate Resident Tutor

2010 - 2015

• In-house advisor to undergraduate students on academic, personal, and professional affairs.

Teaching Assistant

2010 - 2011

• Worked in teaching assistant team to support professorial lectures and course organization. • Prepared 40 minute review presentation and led weekly discussion of course materials. • Guided students through journal paper analyses for course presentations.

President

2011 - 2011

• Recruited 20+ new members and coordinated and ran practice for over sixty active rowers. • Responsible for hiring coaches, communications, budgeting, and support of officer team.

Laboratory Technician

2009 - 2009

• Studied behavioral cortical mechanisms of attention and expectation using behavioral training paradigms and molecular techniques.

Research Assistant

2007 - 2009

• Elucidated the roles of endogenous hormones and environmental cues on motivation and feeding behaviors. Johnson, AW. Canter, R, Gallagher M, and Holland, PC. (2009) Assessing the role of the growth hormone secretagogue receptor in motivational learning and food intake. Behavioral Neuroscience. 123(5): 1058-65. Presentations

Orientation Student Advising Chair

2007 - 2007

• Created two-day mentor training program for development of mentorship, leadership, and advisory skills. • Designed Excel spreadsheet system to match twelve hundred freshmen to appropriate upper-class mentors.

Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapist

2008 - 2009

• Coached proper behavioral patterns to autistic child. • Attended applied behavioral analysis therapy workshops to improve teaching technique.

Vice President of Marketing

2007 - 2007

• Established philanthropy event raising over $1500 annually; currently event is in its seventh year. • Restructured marketing team and job descriptions to create team of ten individuals. • Created framework for community outreach and fraternity branding.

Teaching Assistant Intern

2004 - 2005

• Aid teaching lessons in school for children with mental handicaps and behavioral difficulties.